No, I know what you're thinking now that you've read the headline: A bunch of city councilmembers probably wanted to have a meeting at a Whataburger.

No, not quite.

The Whataburger chain's corporate leaders are considering moving their headquarters from Corpus Christi to San Antonio. Some Corpus councilmen wanted to discuss that at a meeting, but it's raised some open-meetings law questions that the state attorney general may have to decide, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports.

At issue is whether requiring a majority of council members to agree to call a special meeting constitutes a violation of the state's Open Meetings Act, if members discuss the need for a meeting.

The AG has already been asked to weigh in on a similar situation in Rockwall, near Dallas, C-T reporter Beth Wilson says:

Corpus Christi has a ... procedure of requiring five of nine council members to put an issue on an agenda if the mayor or city manager don't first do so.

That policy was at work this week when a few council members, lead by Councilman John Marez, wanted to discuss what the city had done to keep Whataburger from moving its company headquarters to San Antonio. When Mayor Henry Garrett and City Manager Angel Escobar declined to include the issue, and because less than five expressed interest when officially polled by the city secretary's office, the issue didn't make the agenda.